When I was a kid, I read a book in which one of the characters had the ability to see into the past. If she concentrated, she could watch everything that had ever happened in a certain place. I’ve often wished I could have that power, but never more so than when strolling the steep narrow streets of Portugal.

The National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency that funds projects and programs in the humanities across the country, awarded Daryl Baldwin, director of Miami University’s Myaamia Center, a grant to fund a project on indigenous language revitalization on Aug. 8.